Hi Friends,
We need to go above our Los Angeles County Supervisors as they have become non-responsive to our requests to re-open our animal shelters. Please go to the link below and enter your zip code to learn who your state Senators are. Choose your State Senators and then send them a note to Open The Shelters in Los Angeles County.
Visit https://www.senate.ca.gov/senators
Here is the request I sent my Senators. Feel free to copy/paste or write them your own letter.
Hi Senator (Enter Name),
I really need your help. Out of my concern for local abandoned pets, I signed a petition that has more than 15,000 signatures ( see www.OpenTheShelters.com ). We want our animal pounds in Los Angeles County to fully reopened. Our community feels like we've been taken hostage by a new management system at Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control. Select Los Angeles County Supervisors and management have decided to close select animal pounds, limit access to adoptable pets and turn away people who find animals or who need to surrender pets. Please visit the online petition at www.OpenTheShelters.com (.)
As voters and tax payers, I do not understand why other counties have returned to normal operations through out California but Los Angeles County reports they will NEVER return to operations as they were BEFORE the pandemic. It's not because employees were too busy. Los Angeles County Animal Control employees were recently highlighted in a local news story where they found employees during work hours working out, hosting yard sales, and sleeping in their vehicles. We simply want the animal shelters to return to normal operations as they were pre-pandemic.
We've tried to report our concerns to other agencies but have found no luck. Recently, there was even a lawsuit filed against the pounds for making up their own rules on how they work with registered animal rescues in California. We need our government to step in and listen to our community that needs open shelters now more than ever. Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control is telling its citizens to put animals they find back out on the streets, telling people they can't preview adoptable animals when they stop by local animal pounds and they are now limiting access for residents in need of the pounds assistance.
Please contact me with questions.
Regards,
Theodore Trentman
Whittier, CA
Big Bear Lake, CA
213-948-3165
www.OpenTheShelters.com